Looks like the journalist should pay attention to serious data, such as IBGE, DIEESE, IPEA and others. Inflation? Is just the same level as the last 8 years, right according to the government goals! Where did the Independent hear that?

I live in rio, all the shit over here is utterly expensive and terrible, as if it's not bad enought, there's a horde of thieves an rapers roaming around the streets everywhere. whareverer you're a tourist or a dweller, you can hear the constant hum of the fear all way around. the UPP's are pretty fake and all, but it's not that baad. no it isn't, because if you like to play minesweep on pc.. you can always try walk on the street avoinding the exploding manholes, exploding manholes loves american tourists, google it

Brazil´s economy is reaping the fruits of an economy based on high taxes, economy based on borrowing, policies that do not encourage increase for incomes or production, only encourage capital market and increased gap between rich and poor, has an obsolete and unfair tax system, legislation from the last century full of patches. The talks about withdraw people out of poverty is a deception, giving distributing $ 50 per month for each family ( about 50 USD pcm for 3-8 people together in a home) that does not have enough to eat. Politician have the audacity of calling $ 200 (USD) income pcm average worker as "middle class".

All of that you said at cost of personal loans, easy credit card ( easily I can get 20 times my income availlable in credit cards and spend everthing to make Fecomercio happy) , from 2009 till today credit has been eased to the poor as never seen in Brazil. Time to credit crunch may come soon... we will have news about it.

I agree as you said it was worst before, but we have no real growth, We have got 6% inflation and 2.3 growth. It shows that our miserable growth is not sustained. You said C class is about 60% , in your view it is an improvment . I cannot see much improvment as living cost has steadly increased in the last few years. Government injects a little more money into the economy then inflation rises. This is the problem of an unsound economy.

I said unsound in the sense of unsteady and faulty. Sick as you understood has a different meaning , it´s not the case as before when we had inflation out of control. The Brazil needs reforms, Brazilians need to be realistic and not to dream too much and fail to address important issues... As you can see Eike batista companies already declared a default, flying too high without the necessary fuel like Brazil in the cover of The Economist.

In Brazil, the automotive industry profit much money, Brazilians are dumb and dazed and pay the tripled price for cars, it´s a example why we always need to control inflation. Which vehicle manufacturer could go wrong over here?